Yes, it is obvious that IT2007 development is higher priority than IT2006 development. Yes, that's annoying to Nokia 770 owners who do not wish to upgrade to the Nokia N800. In the meantime: can some agitated Nokia 770 owners PLEASE respond to this post with your reports of what is still "broken" on the 770/IT2006? I am researching the development of a community driven project specifically for the Nokia 770/IT2006. I could read through the bugzilla, but to be honest: I'm not a developer and it wouldn't make as much sense to me.
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It's ok that Os2007 is higher priority at this moment. But if Nokia would come forward and say: "hey, we'll bring Os2007 to 770, no need to worry or maintan two versions of applications, just wait couple of months", everything would be fine.
Well as an agitated N770 user I can safely say both Opera and the builtin RSS reader tend to crash quite often. Also Opera likes to forget what a link looks like from time to time and simply ignore taps on them.
If those would get fixed I'd be quite happy.
For me the worst pending bugs are these:
N770 restarts randomly when using it in encypted WLAN network bug#820
Opera is horribly unstable especially when using multiple browser windows. Just closing or opening new window can make it crash. bug#743
I was one of the unlucky ones that bought the device just last month.
Nokia customer service did not agree when I wanted to return the device and get refund. Obviously they did not promise to fix these problems either.
I'd like to see the ability to rotate PDFs for easier reading. And Bluetooth file transfer through the file manager or another built-in application. The built-in RSS reader is dog slow, even with a small subset of my feeds.
Let me clarify: I am asking for outstanding bugs, not feature requests :D
Sorry to "kick" you, I like to read your blog and thought I had a little fix.
The 770 is still on sale. Should people buy this device and fall directly in your "do not wish to upgrade" category and get a device that has less priority than another? I just think that's wrong and that is my point. Push developers to service BOTH platforms and create an environment that facilitates that! Not for me but for this platform. PLEASE don't screw up Nokia!
Nobody talked about 'still "broken" on the 770/IT2006' but that should be very clear to someone researching the development of a community driven project for the Nokia 770/IT2006. Over the last weeks all has been pointed out very clearly in the maemo planet feed.
But ... why do you ask this question? That was not the issue of the comments and you not responding to these comments makes people question your objectivity.
As for me; I think nobody is objective and think that's nice.
I will let this rest and look back in about 6 months.
Keep on blogging!
I'm glad you did criticize me, lurk. And the other readers, too. I have been an embedded Linux and handheld fan for a long time and Nokia is doing the best work on bringing that together, but they are not above criticism for methodology.
I totally agree with tero s., this two bugs are really annoying, especially for an internet tablet !
I gave up the idea of using WPA, the device crashes too often in this configuration.
I wonder if the community driven project ThoughtFix suggests is feasible. Probably not even Nokia has the source code for all the problematic parts.
Nokia simply shouldn't be porting OS2007 to N770 if they would have done things right at the first place.
That is, if they would have created a strong comunity around the OS and have not licenced closed source drivers they could say now.
Here you have community: OS2007.tar.gz. Lets see if you can make it run over N770!!!
People made Linux run over iPods!!! That could have been a race of geeks!!
The problem here is that Nokia made a big, big error making the OS run over propietary drivers.
You can have propietary applications running over OS Operating Systems. But you shouln't have closed source drivers.
The worst is that tweaks of performance on the OS2007 porting to a slower system could had been backported to N800.
Since you asked: my biggest issue with the Nokia 770 is that the browser is extremely unstable. The random, frequent and hard to reproduce browser crashes are extremely annoying.
Above posts confirm this as a problem. Even with pages that don't use much beyond some basic html cause crashes (Mobile Google Reader or Mobile GMail, for example). Since this is supposed to be an internet tablet, you'd think the browser would be more stable.
Don't get me wrong, I love the 770, but the frequent crashes are really annoying.
@Drake: What driver is closed source? The kernel can be rebuilt by community IIRC.
The browser is unstable; memory management is horrible; the device is unable to download anything over 5 meg without freezing; otherwise it is great....Thanks for the outlet.
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